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EPITAPH ON CAXTON, IN ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THY PRAYER WAS 'LIGHT - MORE LIGHT - WHILE TIME SHALL LAST!'
Last Line: TILL SHADOWS VANISH IN THE LIGHT OF LIGHT.
Subject(s): CAXTON, WILLIAM (1422-1491); PRINTING AND PRINTERS;

THY prayer was 'Light -- more Light -- while Time shall last!'
Thou sawest a glory growing on the night,
But not the shadows which that light would cast,
Till shadows vanish in the Light of Light.





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